Milestones: Bodleian Libraries-Vatican Library Digitization Project Reaches 1 Million Pages Digitized

From a Recent Post on the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project Web Site:

The project has reached a significant milestone: 1 million pages have been digitized. To celebrate this achievement, we have chosen two particularly interesting incunabula to go online today [Feb. 24, 2015]. The volumes we have chosen represent key moments in printing history: the Bodleian’s Auct. L 3.33, printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz, was the first edition to include words printed entirely in Greek, while the Vatican Library’s Stamp.Barb.BBB.II.41, De honesta voluptate et valetudine, was a best-selling cookbook that would define a genre for centuries to come.

Note: The project’s goal is to digitize 1.5 million pages.
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Some Key Dates

• Six Months After Launch an Update on Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project (Bodleian Libraries & Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) (June 23, 2014)

  Web Site Launch: Bodleian and the Vatican Libraries Publish Ancient Texts Online (December 3, 2013)

• EMC Providing Vatican Apostolic Library With 2.8 Petabytes of Storage to Digitally Preserve Entire Catalogue of Historic Manuscripts and Incunabula (March 7, 2013)

• Bodleian and Vatican Libraries To Digitise Ancient Texts (April 12, 2012)

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